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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced Creating Humanities Communities, a new grant that supports grassroots humanities programs by encouraging partnerships and collaborations between multiple institutions or organizations in a town, county, region, or area. NEH hopes that the…

Weaver Clarissa Rizal, Tlingit T’ak Dein Taan Raven Clan, passed away in December 2016. While we at Native Arts and Cultures Foundation are deeply saddened by the loss of Clarissa, we are honored to have supported her heritage practice, and…

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation offers its congratulations to Southwest artist collective Postcommodity, who will be featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The Whitney Biennial is the longest…

Through performance, literature and art, “Saying Our Share: Surviving the Missions”, outlines the tragedy that befell a pre-contact California indigenous population of close to one million people and, over 70 years post contact, reduced it to an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 survivors.

Teri Rofkar. Still from Rasmuson Foundation Teri Rofkar passed away in December 2016. While we are deeply saddened by the loss of this artist, we are honored to have supported her heritage practice, and again reminded of the urgency...

We are pleased to announce that Return From Exile, an exhibit from the Southeastern Indian Artists Association, has added venues and so will reach an even greater audience for its exploration of themes of removal, return and resilience. Read about…

2016 was a good year for traditional ash Wabanaki basket weaver Theresa Secord (Penobscot Nation). In June 2016 she was named a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow, and in September honored as a National Endowment for the…

Santa Fe, N.M. – November 18, 2016 – New Mexico musicians and bands Innastate, Native Roots, Joy Harjo, and Def-I have taken action to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline by creating a…

#Giving Tuesday is a one-day annual movement focused on supporting your favorite charity and cause. Celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and the widely known shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many…

Lulani Arquette, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation President & CEO, spoke last spring with Philanthropy Northwest about the challenges, successes, and opportunities she has encountered through her leadership of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. You can read the full…

In partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is coordinating a free workshop by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Native American / Tribal artists, arts organizations and non-profits, and the community. Please join us...

In Native communities and indigenous thinking, water is much more than a resource. Water is part of the “body” of the universe and Mother Earth. It covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface and also is the major make-up…

For thousands of years, master Native artists have dedicated time, resources, and support to the next generation, passing on the skills, arts practice, and cultural understanding needed to perpetuate visual and traditional arts and lifeways. Yet in today’s fast-paced and…

“Our people can’t live without hula and hula cannot live without our people.” 2015 NACF Fellow Vicky Takamine and Kahikina de Silva recently talked to Americans for the Arts about their deep commitment to keeping Hawaiian culture alive, and passing…